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The letters exchanged by Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica between 1964 and 1974 paint a warm portrait of the friendship between two key Brazilian artists of the 20th-century neo-avant-garde aesthetic. “ A letter is always a piece of the person,” says Lygia Clark in a passage that captures the joy emanating from the correspondence as well as the obsessions that run through the works of those who write it: the body—or its phantasmatics, that is, the sensory perceptions that dismantle it into “pieces” —and what happens between people when artistic objects mediate between them.

Clark and Oiticica took the investigations into perception and the "non-object" to extremes.
Brazil's neoconcentrism, and its desire to make art participatory, opened it up and placed it in dialogue with the melting pot of cultural practices happening around it: the underground and rock culture, drug experimentation and psychoanalysis, carnival and radical activism. Therefore, in addition to the expected mentions of the most prominent visual artists and critics of the time, these letters feature figures from popular music such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Gal Costa, but also John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Frank Sinatra; figures from American experimental cinema like Jack Smith and from the French New Wave like Jean-Pierre Léaud; and some protagonists of the Brazilian counterculture such as Wally Salomão, Glauber Rocha, and Suely Rolnik.

In these correspondence, the friends weave a sharp, real-time chronicle of decisive political and cultural events, from the excitement of the Tropicalia explosion to the outrage and survival tactics following the resurgence of the Brazilian dictatorship, from the assassination of Che Guevara in Bolivia to the explosion of rock culture with the Woodstock Festival. But perhaps the most dazzling legacy of these exchanges is the state of perpetual invention in Lygia and Hélio's lives, the nomadic and programmed delirium to which they dedicated their work and daily existence.

Authors:
 Lygia Clark
Hélio Oiticica

Technical specifications:
 Published by: Black Box
 Year: 2023
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 20 x 14 cm
Weight: 300 gr
Spanish
Pages: 244
ISBN: 978-987-8272-03-3

Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica

Phantasm of the Body. Letters 1964–1974

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Description

The letters exchanged by Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica between 1964 and 1974 paint a warm portrait of the friendship between two key Brazilian artists of the 20th-century neo-avant-garde aesthetic. “ A letter is always a piece of the person,” says Lygia Clark in a passage that captures the joy emanating from the correspondence as well as the obsessions that run through the works of those who write it: the body—or its phantasmatics, that is, the sensory perceptions that dismantle it into “pieces” —and what happens between people when artistic objects mediate between them.

Clark and Oiticica took the investigations into perception and the "non-object" to extremes.
Brazil's neoconcentrism, and its desire to make art participatory, opened it up and placed it in dialogue with the melting pot of cultural practices happening around it: the underground and rock culture, drug experimentation and psychoanalysis, carnival and radical activism. Therefore, in addition to the expected mentions of the most prominent visual artists and critics of the time, these letters feature figures from popular music such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Gal Costa, but also John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Frank Sinatra; figures from American experimental cinema like Jack Smith and from the French New Wave like Jean-Pierre Léaud; and some protagonists of the Brazilian counterculture such as Wally Salomão, Glauber Rocha, and Suely Rolnik.

In these correspondence, the friends weave a sharp, real-time chronicle of decisive political and cultural events, from the excitement of the Tropicalia explosion to the outrage and survival tactics following the resurgence of the Brazilian dictatorship, from the assassination of Che Guevara in Bolivia to the explosion of rock culture with the Woodstock Festival. But perhaps the most dazzling legacy of these exchanges is the state of perpetual invention in Lygia and Hélio's lives, the nomadic and programmed delirium to which they dedicated their work and daily existence.

Authors:
 Lygia Clark
Hélio Oiticica

Technical specifications:
 Published by: Black Box
 Year: 2023
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 20 x 14 cm
Weight: 300 gr
Spanish
Pages: 244
ISBN: 978-987-8272-03-3

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Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica

Phantasm of the Body. Letters 1964–1974

$36.000

The letters exchanged by Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica between 1964 and 1974 paint a warm portrait of the friendship between two key Brazilian artists of the 20th-century neo-avant-garde aesthetic. “ A letter is always a piece of the person,” says Lygia Clark in a passage that captures the joy emanating from the correspondence as well as the obsessions that run through the works of those who write it: the body—or its phantasmatics, that is, the sensory perceptions that dismantle it into “pieces” —and what happens between people when artistic objects mediate between them.

Clark and Oiticica took the investigations into perception and the "non-object" to extremes.
Brazil's neoconcentrism, and its desire to make art participatory, opened it up and placed it in dialogue with the melting pot of cultural practices happening around it: the underground and rock culture, drug experimentation and psychoanalysis, carnival and radical activism. Therefore, in addition to the expected mentions of the most prominent visual artists and critics of the time, these letters feature figures from popular music such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Gal Costa, but also John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Frank Sinatra; figures from American experimental cinema like Jack Smith and from the French New Wave like Jean-Pierre Léaud; and some protagonists of the Brazilian counterculture such as Wally Salomão, Glauber Rocha, and Suely Rolnik.

In these correspondence, the friends weave a sharp, real-time chronicle of decisive political and cultural events, from the excitement of the Tropicalia explosion to the outrage and survival tactics following the resurgence of the Brazilian dictatorship, from the assassination of Che Guevara in Bolivia to the explosion of rock culture with the Woodstock Festival. But perhaps the most dazzling legacy of these exchanges is the state of perpetual invention in Lygia and Hélio's lives, the nomadic and programmed delirium to which they dedicated their work and daily existence.

Authors:
 Lygia Clark
Hélio Oiticica

Technical specifications:
 Published by: Black Box
 Year: 2023
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 20 x 14 cm
Weight: 300 gr
Spanish
Pages: 244
ISBN: 978-987-8272-03-3

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